Valve package



Dec. 18, 1956 C. H. MORKEN VALVE PACKAGE Filed Jan. 24, 1955 .77 a 7%.,10 8 0 b 0: FIG. 4

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United States Patent VALVE PACKAGE Carl H. Morken, West Elmira, N. Y.,assignor to The Kennedy Valve Mfg. Co., Elmira, N. Y., a corporation ofNew York Application January 24, 1955, Serial No. 483,726

3 Claims. (Cl. 206-65) This invention relates to a package for storingand shipping valves, and more particularly to the construction ofcorrugated board sheets for positioning the valves within an outercarton or other container.

The customary practice has been to storage valves loose in bins prior topackaging and shipping, but this frequently led to the entry of dirtinto the valve casings, damage to the valve wheels and lettering orlegends on the valves, and injury to the threads of screw end valves orto the fragile ends of valves intended for soldered connections totubing. The counting of valves stored in bins required considerable timewhen inventories were to be taken, and the handling of the valves duringthat operation frequently resulted in damage to the valves.

Objects of the present invention are to provide packages for valveswhich will eliminate these disadvantages during storage and which willprotect the valves during shipping and other handling. An object is toprovide a package for a number of valves which holds them in placeindividually to prevent rubbing and marring, and which eliminates thetemporary end closures which have been employed to prevent the entranceof dirt into the valve casings. Another object is to provide a packagewhich protects from damage the fragile ends of valve casings into whichtubes are to be inserted and soldered.

These and other objects and the advantages of the invention will beapparent from the following specification when taken with theaccompanying drawing in which:

Fig. 1 is a fragmentary perspective View of an inner liner and outerpositioning member of corrugated board supporting a valve, ascontemplated by the invention;

Fig. 2 is an end view of the same;

Fig. 3 is a fragmentary elevation of a valve package embodying theinvention, as seen in section on a plane outside of the outer surface ofa supporting member in which a plurality of valves are arranged, andprior to the closing of the package; and

Fig. 4 is a fragmentary side View of an inner liner for use with screwedend valves.

In Figs. 1 and 2 of the drawing, the reference numeral 1 identifies thecasing of a globe valve having oppositely extending tubular portions 2,2 to which pipe connections are to be made. A hollow sleeve 3 extendsupwardly from the casing and is closed by a gland nut 4 through whichvalve stem 5 extends and carries a handwheel 6. The internalconstruction of the valve may follow any known or desired design and theconnection ends 2 of the valve casing may be smooth walled tubes, asshown, when the valve is to be soldered to the associated tubing, or maybe threaded for screw connection to pipes.

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In accordance with the invention, I provide an inner lined comprising asheet 7 of corrugated board provided with parallel score lines a, a forfacilitating the bending of the sheet to substantially U-form with theflanges 8 substantially normal to the web 9 and provided with alinedsets of spaced openings 10, 10 for receiving the ends of the tubularextensions 2 when the valve casings 1 are seated against the web 9. Thepositioning member which cooperates with the inner liner to maintain thevalves in spaced parallel relation comprises a larger sheet 11 ofcorrugated board provided with four parallel score lines a to facilitatebending, as indicated in Figs. 1 and 2, into hollow rectangular formsnugly enclosing the liner 7 in its central portion. The opposite edgeportions 12, 12' of sheet 11 are provided with complementary notches 13,13' for receiving the stems 5 of the valves when the sheet is bent tooverlap the edge portions to seat edge portion 12 against the outer faceof the gland nut 4 and seat edge portion 12 against the inner face ofthe handwheel 6.

An assembly of valves in a liner and positioning member may be packagedin an individual carton or receptacle, preferably of corrugated paper,or a large carton may be provided for a number of assemblies, In eithercase, the cartons have oppositely arranged parallel walls against whichthe outer surfaces of the handwheels 6 and the base of the positioningmember 11 are seated. In the case of a single assembly package, theouter carton has parallel side walls, not shown, between which theopposite sides of the positioning member 11 snugly fit, and a bottomwall 14 spaced from a closure wall 15 which folds down on the score line16 to seat on the handwheels 6 when the base of member 11 is seated onthe bottom wall 14.

In the case of packages for valves with threaded lateral extensions, theflanges 8a of the inner liners 7a are provided with hexagonal openings19a, see Fig. 4, for snugly receiving the correspondingly shaped ends ofthe lateral extensions of the valve casings.

The valves are firmly held in spaced relation in the described package,and will not be damaged during storage or shipment. The same unit numberof valves, say five or six, is preferably placed in each package tofacilitate the taking of inventories when, as preferred, the valves arepackaged as soon as inspected after manufacture. Less than unit packagesare readily prepared for shipping by cutting through the corrugatedboard of the outer receptacle and the inner sheets which support thevalves.

I claim:

1. A valve package comprising a plurality of valves of roughly T-formwith a casing having oppositely extending portions to which pipeconnections may be made and a stem portion to which is secured a glandnut through which a valve stem extends, a U-shaped inner liner ofcorrugated board having a web portion and flanges substantially normalthereto, said flanges having spaced sets of aligned apertures in theopposite sides thereof to receive the ends of the oppositely extendingportions of the respective valves with the web portion of said lineradjacent the under portion of said valves, and a positioning member ofcorrugated board bent to hollow rectangular form snugly fitted aboutsaid liner and having overlapping end portions with spaced sets ofaligned slots therein embracing said valve stems.

2. A valve package as defined in claim 1 wherein a hand- Wheel issecured to said valve stem and said overlapped portions of saidpositioning member are seated on one side against the upper face of saidgland nut and on the other side against the lower face of saidhandwheel.

3. A valve package comprising a valve of roughly T- form with a casinghaving oppositely extending portions to which pipe connections may bemade and a stem portion to which istsecured a gland nut through which avalve stem extends, a U-shaped inner liner of corrugated board having aweb portion and flanges substantially normal thereto, said flangeshaving aligned apertures therein to receive the ends of the oppositelyextending portions'ot the valve with the Web portion of said lineradjacent the under portion of said valve, and a positioning member ofcorrugated board bent to hollow rectangular form snugly fitted aboutsaid liner and having overlapping end portions with aligned slotstherein embracing said valve stem.

References Cited in the file of this patent UNITED STATES PATENTS LewisJune 8, 1948

